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Nobel Prize for discovering hepatitis C virus

Public Domain by Maria Teresa Catanese, Martina Kopp, Kunihiro Uryu, and Charles Rice
Three scientists are awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of the hepatitis C virus. The committee states that their discovery saved millions of lives (partly by making blood transfusions safer).